Egypt's Morsi Has Not Even Heard From Obama Since Power-Grab

Foxnews.com reports:

President Obama, who praised Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi for brokering a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, has not spoken to the Islamist since his alarming power grab, a White House spokesman said Monday.  

One day after Arizona Sen. John McCain appeared on the Fox News Channel and called on Obama to renounce the decree by Morsi putting himself above the law, White House spokesman Jay Carney repeated the State Department’s muted call for Egyptians to work out their “internal” problems. 

“We call for calm and for all parties to work together to resolve their differences peacefully,” Carney said. 

"We've raised concerns about it," Carney added later. "We are constantly monitoring developments in Egypt and working with the Egyptians, with whom we have a very close relationship." 

But asked point blank if the White House "condemned" Morsi's move, Carney stopped short.
"We are concerned about it and have raised those concerns," he said. 

Carney said Obama has not spoken with Morsi since the Islamist Egyptian president helped achieve a truce between Hamas and Israel, but said Obama’s recent praise of Morsi was limited to those efforts.

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